Karen Bartlett: Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Holocaust

Schüle, op. cit., pp. 107–108.

AS footnote 162: Buchenwald Memorial, Konzentrationslager Buchenwald 1937–1945. Begleitband zur ständigen historischen Ausstellung [ Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1937–1945: A Guide to the Permanent Historical Exhibition ] , Göttingen, 2005, pp. 115–18.

Schüle, op. cit., p. 117. Austrian president Franz Bera’s account.

AS footnote 197: Report by Franz Bera, Buchenwald Memorial Archive 31/455.

Schüle, op. cit., pp. 117–18.

AS footnote 198: Eric Haase in Das war Buchenwald [ This was Buchenwald ], p. 80.

Author interview with Hartmut Topf.

Kurt Prüfer, Soviet interrogation records, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Schüle, op. cit., p. 122.

AS footnote 212: Sworn statement by Johanna Büschleb, Gudensberg, 1/4/1946, ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac no. 81, sheets 83–90. This quote has been taken from sheet 87.

Schüle, op. cit., pp. 122–3. Ludwig Topf’s post-war explanation concerning the epidemic at Buchenwald.

AS footnote 213: Kurt Prüfer personnel file, ThHStAW, J A Topf & Söhne Erfurt no. 14, sheet 119.

AS footnote 214: Minutes of Works Council meeting, 27 April 1945, ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac no. 32, sheet 230.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Schüle, op. cit., p. 124. Lilly Kopecky quotes about urns.

AS footnote 218: Lore Shelly (ed.), Schreiberinnen des Todes, Bielefeld, 1992 (first published as Secretaries of Death, Shengold, 1986), p. 255.

Schüle, op. cit., p. 151.

AS footnote 2: Report of Max Girndt, 1945, Buchenwald Memorial Archive 32/IX-63.

Schüle, op. cit., pp. 151–2.

AS footnote 3: ‘August’ presumably refers to August Brück.

AS footnote 4: Report of Hans Neupert, Buchenwald Memorial Archive 31/42.

AS footnote 5: Report of Hans Neupert, 24 July 1954, Buchenwald Memorial Archive 50-2-33.

Kurt Prüfer’s request for a bonus, dated December 1941, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Kurt Prüfer’s letter regarding a bonus, November 1942, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Kurt Prüfer’ letter regarding a bonus November 1942, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Letter to Kurt Prüfer December 1943. Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Topf memo concerning Kurt Prüfer, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Prüfer’s resignation, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Ibid.

Memo regarding a company meeting; Kurt Prüfer’s comments, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Topf and Sons application for Uk status, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Letter from Prüfer to Bischoff about Ludwig Topf’s army status, Landesarchiv Thüringen -Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Memo about E. W. Topf calling workers ‘Communist pigs’ 1942, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Topf and Sons memo concerning the discovery of an explosive capsule, 1942, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Fritz Meier resignation, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Memo about anonymous letter regarding Topf and Sons, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Memo about Department D being the department that complained the most, Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Eva Schloss and Karen Bartlett, After Auschwitz, Hodder and Stoughton, 2013, p. 105.

Laurence Rees, Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’, BBC Books, 2005, p. 48.

Rees, op. cit., p. 49.

Ibid., p. 54.

Ibid., p. 90.

Schloss and Bartlett, op. cit., p. 122.

Ibid.

Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum (eds), Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, Indiana University Press, 1994, p. 262.

Rees, op. cit., p. 171.

Ibid., p. 172.

Ibid., p. 206.

Ibid., p. 146.

Schloss and Bartlett, op. cit., p. 144.

Rees, op. cit., p. 327.

Taken from a Soviet report on the liberation of Auschwitz. Landesarchiv Thüringen - Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar.

Schüle, op. cit., p. 136.

AS Footnote 252: Hilberg, Raul, Vernichtung der europäischen Jüden [ The Destruction of the European Jews ], Frankfurt am Main, 1999 (first published 1982; English edition 1961), vol. 2, p. 934.

Schüle, op. cit., pp. 137–8.

AS footnote 260 (on p138): Ur/T, 8.1.1941. Re: Extension to the crematorium at the Auschwitz concentration camp o/S, ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr. 6, sheet 180; Buchenwald Memorial Archive Pressac Collection, sheet 121. [My best guess is that the ‘Ur/T’ will be the SS internal reference: Ur = Urbanczyk, T probably the initial of the typist.]

Schüle, op. cit., p. 142.

AS footnote 287: Topf and Sons to the SS Construction Management Dept, Auschwitz, 4 November 1941, Russian State Military Archive, Moscow, Special Archive Division, 502- 1-313, sheets 81–3; copy in ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr. 6, sheets 81–3; Buchenwald Memorial Archive Pressac Collection, sheets 221–3.

Schüle, op. cit., p. 155.

AS footnote 14: ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr. 41, sheet 33; Buchenwald Memorial Archive, Pressac collection, sheet 314.

Rees, op. cit., 2005, p. 215.

Schüle, op. cit., p. 163.

AS footnote 45: Construction Management Dept, Building expenses book, ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr. 42, sheet 42; Buchenwald Memorial Archive, Pressac Collection, sheet 775. Construction Management Dept, Advance Payments Book, p. 2, ThHStAW, Collection Jean-Claude Pressac Nr. 42, sheet 50, and Buchenwald Memorial Archive, Pressac Collection, sheet 783.

Schüle, op. cit., p. 164.

AS footnote 47: Kurt Prüfer makes note of a phone call for the company directors, 8 September 1942, ThHStAW, J A Topf & Söhne Nr 95, sheet 40.

AS footnote 48: In later practice, the number of corpses cremated was significantly higher – up to 8,000 corpses per day across all the Birkenau crematoria, whereas Prüfer had assumed the number was only 3,200.